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...think [the other runners] stopped thinking of me as a Harvard runner, but as a person who can run even though I don't go to a big track school," Rainey said. "It may have been a little tough for them to swallow, the fact that Harvard runners beat them. But I think we gained some respect after it was over...
...nomination process. At the Department of Energy, five people have rejected offers to serve as the $80,700-a-year Assistant Secretary in charge of nuclear energy. "I'm having trouble persuading people with needed skills to join the Government," complains Energy Secretary James Watkins. "They might swallow the lower pay, but they balk when they learn ethics laws could bar them from returning to their old jobs...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...tough upset to swallow, but the Crimson will not have much time to think about it. Harvard travels to Brown this afternoon for another key Ivy matchup...
...only half kidding. "The idea that the postcard-writing public should pay as well as write cards is not an easy one for preservationists to swallow," Graff concedes. But "if there was more of a willingness to pay for maintaining the environment, we wouldn't have to rely on bureaucratic whim." It is evident that Willey and Graff believe in their neo-capitalist approach. The bottom line then naturally presents itself: Gentlemen, what do we get for our money...